Unit S03 ram bighorn sheep, rifle

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Colorado ranks first-choice applicants by preference points (one point for each year you miss your first choice), with nonresidents capped at a share of each hunt's licenses. Hunts that took 10+ resident points the year before and have 5+ licenses also run a hybrid draw: up to 20% of licenses go at random to applicants with at least 5 points. For moose, bighorn sheep and mountain goat, each miss after 3 preference points adds a weighted point that improves a random draw instead; for those species the point level shown is preference plus weighted points. Numbers are adult first-choice applicants; youth and landowner (LPP) applicants are reported separately by CPW and left out.

• 2026CPW's point-level rows for nonresident adult first-choice applicants add up to 228, 1 fewer than the 229 it prints as the total; the missing applicants are not shown at any point level.
• 2025CPW's point-level rows for resident adult first-choice applicants add up to 157, 1 fewer than the 158 it prints as the total; the missing applicants are not shown at any point level. CPW's point-level rows for nonresident adult first-choice applicants add up to 397, 1 fewer than the 398 it prints as the total; the missing applicants are not shown at any point level.
• 2024CPW's point-level rows for resident adult first-choice applicants add up to 141, 1 fewer than the 142 it prints as the total; the missing applicants are not shown at any point level.
• 2021CPW's point-level rows for nonresident adult first-choice applicants add up to 211, 2 fewer than the 213 it prints as the total; the missing applicants are not shown at any point level.

Sources

• 2026PostDrawRecapReport_SHEEP-26_04222026_1349_wCoverSheet(draw)
• 2025PostDrawRecapReport_SHEEP-25_04142025_1550(draw)
• 20252025 Statewide Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Harvest(harvest)
• 20242024-Primary-RM-Bighorn-Sheep-Post-Draw-Report(draw)
• 20232023RMSheepDrawRecap(draw)
• 20222022RMSheepDrawRecap(draw)
• 20212021RMSheepDrawRecap(draw)

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